Dudes! (Optimistic use of plural.) After weeks of digging up a lawn bed and turning soil and generally busting our arse muscles (not to mention alienating friends by suddenly having conversational interests confined entirely to compost and the gluteus maximus): M and I finally got our shit in one sock and planted a vegetable garden. [...]
Also tagged sproutyI would like to present a pictorial essay titled “A Call To Apricots”. I love apricots. They’re easily one of my favourite fruits and I don’t commit to that sort of prioritisation lightly. I love how little they are, I love their nubbly soft skin, and I love the easy way they surrender from their [...]
Also tagged bakingI like green, I like brown. I like brown a lot. Here’s some brown: just a quickie. Brown cake! Okay, I admit brown cake doesn’t photograph so well here. But the photo on the recipe page (linked below) should tell you volumes. Cardamom coffee zucchini cake. Holy shredded panty tassels, dudes, this cake is the bomb. [...]
Also tagged bakingLook, I’m not going to lie to you. This is a post about a tomato. Just one. (Well, from there I extrapolate, but seriously, I’m only featuring one here.) If you are not the kind of person to nod thoughtfully about some comments on and photos of a homegrown tomato from a first-timer, then this [...]
Also tagged sproutyFor reasons that are too tedious to go into, there was a recent experimentation with beer as a hair conditioner Chez Spoonfully (results: not unpleasant, not smelly, not sticky, did not attract ants, but not spectacular either). For the purposes of said experimentation, half a stubby of Guinness Stout was directed to the follicles, leaving [...]
Also tagged adventures in cookingOkay okay okay, last breakfast-babble. I want to talk about fruit. Who doesn’t? (Kindly ask them to leave.) In posting the following, I may easily alienate many northern-hemisphere readers, who are currently snowed in. I got this out of my garden the other morning: We bought our house in winter, and spring was an awesome [...]
Also tagged adventures in cookingBecause I apparently can’t shut up on this topic. Right, here’s how to have breakfast, folks, and to have it fast. If I had a degree in marketing, I’d probably say something like “Here’s how to have break-fast!!” and that’s why we’re all glad I have no marketing-related qualifications. Moving on. In my last breakfast-related [...]
Also tagged adventures in cookingTrust me, this is relevant: I don’t like hot weather. But there’s a lot about summer I love: the longer evenings, going barefoot, bushwalking, swimming, picnics. Cherries. Cherries get dirt cheap around Christmas, occasionally dropping to astonishing prices like $4 per kilo. That’s mondo cheap. That’s stupid cheap. This year, so everyone keeps telling me, [...]
Also tagged adventures in cookingDudes, I rock. You’re always the last to know, right? This is the finale of this summer’s have-my-cake-and-eat-it-too knitting. The conclusion of Coachella! Having finished Agave satisfactorily (I wear it as I type), I diverted all remaining yarn to the pursuit of Coachella. Which meant tiny scrap balls and a rogue i-cord from a project [...]
Also tagged Coachella, FO ReportMy have-my-cake-and-eat-it-too knitting experiment is concluding and the early signs point to TRIUMPH. Having calculated that I had enough bamboo to make one of the two tanks I wanted, I got a cramp in the brain and decided to make both anyway. The first to finish: the Agave tank. Agave lace in detail (I’ve used [...]
Also tagged Agave, FO Report